Christopher J. Fynn wrote:
> I think you are going a much too far here - perhaps a standard mapping from
> characters to a unified glyph space, like Michael suggested for plane-17 or
> something, would ease implementation and be useful for simple (simplistic?)
> designs (though font designers who felt constrained by the limits such a standard
> scheme would impose would have to be able to be able to override such a scheme if they wished.
Nothing wrong with that idea, except for the notion that the Unicode
integers must not overlap with the Glyphcode integers. It may be
useful in simple cases to make them the same, but this need not be
a *normative* property.
In particular, if Glyphcodes are to be integers at all,
there are real advantages to drawing them from a larger subset of the
(mathematical) integers, so that there can be some hierarchical
information encoded in them. Indeed, the correct mapping style
may be from glyphs to *strings* rather than integers, since
strings have some structure already. (Plainly, this is existing
Adobe practice.)
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